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i

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was i promise when you're going to call me back countries

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and a promise

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and click that was it nevertheless

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i spoke to in two thousand

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and seventeen libby caswell

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was found dead in a motel room in

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independence missouri she was

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twenty one years old a young mom

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working hard to get by the police

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investigation was brief

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like a homicide

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issue suicide but liberty's mom

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doesn't believe the official story i

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thought well they must have missed his finger nail

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it wasn't till much later and i thought why would

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they not search the car she

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assembled a team of experts who

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looked at the evidence and think libby

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was murdered

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we have a term goal j dlr

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which means just don't look right

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live his case stands out in

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i'm on and keeps me awake at night or

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or later somebody talk

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my name is melissa johnson i'm

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a reporter who covers violence against women

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on season two of my podcast what

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happened to i take a closer look

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at live because was life and death

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way to fight a gray happy

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birthday

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he will be a demand

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for nader i don't know from from

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the seems all right now

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i've spent the last year talking to live

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his friends and family uncovering

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details of her life and the secrets

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that may have endangered it and

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you hear drink from been but he wouldn't

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admit it to or and

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so i was like to

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you know kind of like what it does that he just hit

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her tommy like she was done like

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she's dying gone back and forth the now she's finally

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gonna do what she needed to do for her

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this is a podcast about the systems

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that are supposed to help women but

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don't we have very strong

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stereotypes about the ways

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that victims of domestic violence are supposed

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to act i think the law is said

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to punish families. Those

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agencies are failing to do

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the right thing. And it's about one

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mom's search for justice. She

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started advising me, get your records, get

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your stuff together, because

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this is gonna be the fight of your life.

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All she's got is

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a fight, fight

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me. Join

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me on a journey to uncover what

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really happened to Libby Caslaw. Everyone

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deserves to know the truth. And if there

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was something that was not right,

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then someone should be held accountable.

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Somebody dropped the ball. The medical

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examiner ruled Libby's death undetermined.

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They go, what do you mean they ruled undetermined? I

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wish I could go back in time and go stay

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with her at that hotel. It

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was crying and upset. And I was like,

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man, what happened? This

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was a powerful woman

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with status. This

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case would have been resolved by now. And

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the killer would be injured. The Libby

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Council didn't have status. What

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happened to her is unknown.

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And it's something that you

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need to know.

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Listen to what happened to Libby Caslaw

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starting November 2nd on the iHeartRadio

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app Apple Podcasts or wherever you

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get your podcasts.